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Audrey Hepburn's Swiss villa, La Paisible, is now on the market for $21 million. The 18th-century farmhouse, located in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, was owned by Hepburn from 1963 until her death in 1993. The current owners, Katharina and Jean-Marc Beaujolin, are selling the 12-bedroom, eight-bathroom villa with 10,800 square feet of space on a 4-acre lot. The property, known for its peaceful atmosphere, is close to the center of town and offers views of the mountains. The Beaujolins, who raised their six children in the house, are downsizing as their children have grown. [Extracted from the article]

Audrey Hepburn's Swiss villa, La Paisible, is now on the market for $21 million. The 18th-century farmhouse, located in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, was owned by Hepburn from 1963 until her death in 1993. The current owners, Katharina and Jean-Marc Beaujolin, are selling the 12-bedroom, eight-bathroom villa with 10,800 square feet of space on a 40-acre lot. The property, known for its peaceful atmosphere, is close to the center of town and offers views of the mountains. The Beaujolins, who raised their six children in the house, are downsizing as their children have grown, but they have fond memories of their time there. [Extracted from the article]

Ping An, one of China's leading insurers, had a 4.9% stake in Country Garden as of August, data compiled by Bloomberg show. (Bloomberg) -- Chinese authorities have asked insurer Ping An Insurance Group to take a controlling stake in developer Country Garden Holdings Co., Reuters reported. [Extracted from the article]

It also includes the MSG and MSG+ cable networks. (Bloomberg) -- Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. is considering a spinoff of its well-known sports arena and theaters along with its cable networks, saying a deal could deliver value to investors. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will hold a two-hour virtual town hall on the Fox News Channel May 3, returning to campaign mode after spending nearly two months in the White House unable to enjoy his raucous rallies due to the coronavirus. Trump also held a Fox News town hall from the White House Rose Garden March 24 to address his administration's coronavirus response efforts. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The White House issued a strategy to expand U.S. testing for the coronavirus on Monday, after enduring criticism that the outbreak has grown to nearly 1 million Americans in part because the government was slow to develop widespread testing to track and contain the disease. Trump has shown frustration with questions about the government's failure to more rapidly expand testing for the virus and has previously said that states should shoulder more of the burden. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and retailers are expected to announce wider availability of coronavirus tests as his administration seeks to address concerns from states and business leaders that U.S. testing must be more robust for Americans to feel comfortable returning to work. The U.S. has performed more than 5.4 million coronavirus tests so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and retailers are expected to announce wider availability of coronavirus tests as his administration seeks to address concerns from states and business leaders that U.S. testing must be more robust for Americans to feel comfortable returning to work. Trump praised executives from Walmart Inc., Target Corp., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. in a Rose Garden news conference on March 13, saying they had agreed to set up testing facilities in their parking lots. [Extracted from the article]

President Donald Trump said his administration expects the peak of deaths in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak to be reached in about two weeks, and that he would extend current social distancing guidelines for Americans until April 30. Trump said his Easter deadline "was just an aspiration", and that it would be possible for Covid-19 case and fatality numbers to go down and then "spike up" again if social distancing is relaxed too soon. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who is the most credible U.S. spokesperson on the coronavirus outbreak, has been absent from White House events for three days after contradicting President Donald Trump. Trump on Tuesday downplayed the notion that Fauci's absence signals he is angry with the doctor, saying at a Fox News town hall that Fauci "has other things to do.". [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday's caucus. Data for the poll were collected after the Iowa Democratic Party released partial caucus results that found Buttigieg with a slight lead over Sanders. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday's caucus. Data for the poll were collected after the Iowa Democratic Party released partial caucus results that found Buttigieg with a slight lead over Sanders. Joe Biden won the backing of a major labor union Wednesday, a welcome boost after partial results indicate a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren leaned into her "women win" message in a CNN town hall Wednesday. Data for the poll were collected after the Iowa Democratic Party released partial caucus results that found Buttigieg with a slight lead over Sanders. Joe Biden won the backing of a major labor union Wednesday, a welcome boost after partial results indicate a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden opened up about his stuttering in a CNN town hall, discussing a very personal subject he has rarely addressed in public. Compared to the poll taken Tuesday, before the partial Iowa results were released, Buttigieg gained 5 percentage points, Warren lost 2, Klobuchar lost 1 and Sanders and Biden were unchanged. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The Iowa Democratic Party has released more results from Monday's caucus. Data for the poll were collected after the Iowa Democratic Party released partial caucus results that found Buttigieg with a slight lead over Sanders. Compared to the poll taken Tuesday, before the partial Iowa results were released, Buttigieg gained 5 percentage points, Warren lost 2, Klobuchar lost 1 and Sanders and Biden were unchanged. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a comfortable lead before next week's New Hampshire primary with nearly double the support of Pete Buttigieg and is favored in nearly every subgroup, according to a new Emerson College poll. Compared to the poll taken Tuesday, before the partial Iowa results were released, Buttigieg gained 5 percentage points, Warren lost 2, Klobuchar lost 1 and Sanders and Biden were unchanged. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A senior adviser to Joe Biden's campaign raised questions about the results of the Iowa caucus, where the former vice president is currently in fourth place. Joe Biden won the backing of a major labor union Wednesday, a welcome boost after partial results indicate a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucsues. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Pete Buttigieg maintained his lead in the Iowa caucuses after the state's Democratic Party released another batch of results Wednesday afternoon. With about two-thirds of Iowa precincts reporting, the former vice presidnet was sitting in fourth place, behind 38-year-old Pete Buttigieg, self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, another progressive senator. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden's not the only one playing up his ties to Barack Obama. "What makes Joe Biden different isn't just his support for our rights on the job, but his support for good energy jobs", IBEW President Lonnie R. Stephenson said in a statement. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump, making the first in-person address by a U.S. president at a major anti-abortion rally in Washington, called himself a strong defender of the unborn and blasted Democrats for their "radical and extreme" positions. A Trump spokesman has declined to say whether Trump will seek to overturn Roe v. Wade. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to address the anti-abortion March for Life in person with a planned trip to the rally on the National Mall on Friday as he courts conservative voters before the November elections. "He will be the first president in history to attend and we are so excited for him to experience in person how passionate our marchers are about life and protecting the unborn", Jeanne Mancini, president of March For Life, said in a statement. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Markets) -- Nicholas Coates doesn't miss the commute. Now Coates, 60, just walks through the rose garden between his home and the bucolic headquarters of Coates & Seely, a maker of English sparkling wine that he co-founded to take on Champagne at its own game. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump on Monday finally met Conan, a military service dog injured in the U.S. raid that resulted in the death of former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Vice President Mike Pence scratched Conan on the head as Trump spoke. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden isn't giving up his front-runner mantle without a fight, refusing to acknowledge that Elizabeth Warren has met him at the top of the 2020 Democratic field and moving to take her on directly on the campaign trail. In all, Biden's approach to Warren's climb has been to intensify his efforts to look and sound like a statesman, resisting any forces that might suggest he won't be facing Trump in the general election. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- When President Barack Obama in 2009 announced a plan to bolster the fuel efficiency of cars to record levels, he stood shoulder to shoulder in the White House Rose Garden with chief executives of the largest automakers. Senator Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat, signaled his frustration that automakers that had warned against Trump taking this step are suddenly quiet as he takes it. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Two Downton Abbey fans will soon get the chance to live like a Crawley for a night when Highclere Castle, the main filming location for the Emmy Award-winning drama, lists on Airbnb. While Downton Abbey aired from 2010 to 2015, the castle's great hall, library, music room, drawing room, saloon, dining room, and bedrooms were used for filming. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been publicly criticized by President Donald Trump for raising interest rates in 2018 and shrinking its balance sheet. On the same morning Fed officials begin a two-day policy meeting, Trump tells reporters he wants a "large cut" from the central bank, adding his demand that the Fed halt balance sheet runoffs immediately. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick for the next White House chief of staff, says he'd spoken to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that Trump "now realizes he does not have the ability" to fire a Fed chairman. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been publicly criticized by President Donald Trump over the central bank's interest-rate increases in 2018 and continued shrinking of its balance sheet. Trump hosts Powell, Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for dinner at the White House to discuss the U.S. economy. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick for the next White House chief of staff, says he'd spoken to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that Trump "now realizes he does not have the ability" to fire a Fed chairman. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has been publicly criticized by President Donald Trump over the central bank's interest-rate increases in 2018 and continued shrinking of its balance sheet. Trump hosts Powell, Fed Vice Chairman Richard Clarida and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for dinner at the White House to discuss the U.S. economy. Mick Mulvaney, Trump's pick for the next White House chief of staff, says he'd spoken to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that Trump "now realizes he does not have the ability" to fire a Fed chairman. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- China's military said its recent "live-fire drill" in the South China Sea didn't target any country and wasn't held to achieve specific objectives, after the U.S. denounced the missile tests as "coercive acts". The Chinese statement refers to an exercise "in nearby waters" of Hainan Island, while Pentagon spokesman Dave Eastburn said the missile launch was near the Spratly Islands, roughly 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) south of Hainan in the South China Sea. [Extracted from the article]

EU elections fragment European parties, complicating course "You're seeing an EU that is fighting fires on so many fronts that I just don't think they are going to be confident and able to negotiate that deal" with the U.S., said Heather Conley, head of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. [Extracted from the article]

President Trump says his administration will consider granting waivers so that athletes from service academies can play professional sports before fulfilling their armed services obligations. AttributionAndres R. Martinez: editor primaryJohn Hughes: by editor reporter secondaryJustin Sink: by reporterKasia Klimasinska: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

Congress could fight Trump's emergency order for wall funding Trump's emergency declaration will allow him to redirect $3.5 billion Congress approved for the Defense Department's military construction budget. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In President Trump's World, He Never Loses: Timothy L. O'Brien To that end, the White House released a document on Friday titled "President Donald Trump's Border Security Victory" a day after Congress passed a spending bill that didn't fund the border wall Trump demanded. Back in the early 2000s, his casino company, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, was in familiar territory: mismanaged, saddled with debt it had trouble repaying, and ultimately forced into bankruptcy. [Extracted from the article]

That will focus attention on the Senate, where the resolution would be privileged -- a procedural designation that allows it to leapfrog other business and prevents Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell from blocking a vote if a Democrat requests one. Assuming all Senate Democrats voted against the emergency declaration, just four Republican votes would be needed for the disapproval resolution to be sent to Trump's desk. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Your Evening Briefing: Trump Declares a National Emergency After failing to convince Congress of the need for a wall on the southern border, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency. The Bloomberg cross asset reporter sees a glaring asymmetry in U.S. markets. [Extracted from the article]

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the U.S. southern border Friday in a bid to unlock more money to build his proposed wall, and signed legislation providing about $1.4 billion for the controversial project. The administration officials declined to discuss Trump's legal strategy to defend the emergency declaration. [Extracted from the article]

U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects trade with the U.K. to increase "substantially", handing a boost to Theresa May, the beleaguered prime minister, who has flagged a trans-Atlantic agreement as one of the great prizes of Brexit. Then in November he said May's Brexit deal meant the U.K. might not be able to trade with the U.S., a position backed up by his ambassador a month later. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Markets) -- Christine Lagarde on What Makes Her Laugh The International Monetary Fund's managing director since 2011 was the subject of the Bloomberg Markets Q&A in the May/June 2016 issue. [Extracted from the article]

Trump Credits "Talent" for Gas Price, Suggests OPEC Monopoly (1) President Donald Trump said OPEC "is essentially a monopoly", even as he credited his own "talent" for having brought down oil prices. AttributionCatherine Traywick: editor primaryMike Jeffers: editor secondaryJavier Blas: assistTina Davis: by editor reporter responsibleStephen Cunningham: by reporter. [Extracted from the article]

Just days after President Donald Trump blamed the Federal Reserve chairman for the stock market's December swoon and discussed with aides his desire to fire him, White House staff are reportedly working to set up a meeting between the two men. Two days later, Bloomberg News reported that Trump had spoken with aides about firing Powell, triggering even worse pain for stocks. [Extracted from the article]

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has come under increasing pressure from President Donald Trump over the central bank's gradual increase of interest rates. Trump says he was intentionally sending a direct message to Powell that he wanted lower interest rates, even as he acknowledged that the central bank is an independent entity. [Extracted from the article]

Trump Insults ABC's Cecilia Vega, Saying She "Never" Thinks President Donald Trump insulted a female reporter for ABC News on Monday during a Rose Garden news conference, telling her that she "never" thinks even before she had a chance to ask her question. As the reporter, Cecilia Vega, turned to retrieve a microphone to ask Trump a question, Trump joked "she's shocked that I picked her. [Extracted from the article]

President Donald Trump is taking notice of Brazil. While celebrating a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as an "historic" win that vindicated his strategy of threatening tariffs on trade partners, Trump said Brazil is treating U.S. companies unfairly. [Extracted from the article]

Trump Says Kavanaugh Testimony Shows Past Drinking "Difficulty" Trump turned to the subject in a Rose Garden press conference Monday when asked whether he would withdraw Kavanaugh's nomination if he lied to the committee by understating his alcohol use. AttributionMike Dorning: editor primaryJoshua Gallu: editor secondaryShannon Pettypiece: by reporterAlex Wayne: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

Trump Wants "Very Comprehensive" Probe of Kavanaugh Allegations President Donald Trump said he wants the FBI to do a "very comprehensive" investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and lamented the "trauma" the accusations have caused the judge. Trump did not directly answer when asked Monday whether the FBI would be able to investigate allegations that in Kavanaugh's sworn Senate testimony the nominee understated his alcohol consumption in high school and college. [Extracted from the article]

EU officials were in Washington just last week discussing how to proceed with the trans-Atlantic deal to reduce tariffs and trade barriers related to industrial goods other than cars that Trump and Juncker announced. A separate EU mission was also in town last week huddling with U.S. and Japanese officials to discuss how the three economic powers might take on China jointly in the very WTO that Trump lambasted. [Extracted from the article]

Top Kim aide hand-delivers letter to Trump at White House Trump had called off plans for a summit in a letter to Kim on May 24, complaining of "the tremendous anger and open hostility" in comments from North Korea. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Amazon Should Be Circling Britain's Grocers: Andrea Felsted Amazon Should Be Circling Britain's Grocers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- N.Y. Estate Boasts Hollywood Pedigree and $2 Million Landscaping Art dealer W. Graham Arader specializes in antique maps, books, and prints, and he has a side interest in antique houses. O'Donnell, Arader says, "wisely" elected to put the air-handling units in the building's widow's watch, while the kitchen, he says, is another "Rosie O'Donnell masterpiece, with wonderful, new appliances". [Extracted from the article]